Two months after a San Francisco toddler\u2019s fatal fentanyl overdose, the child\u2019s parents have been charged with murder.<\/p>\n
It is the first murder charge by the San Francisco district attorney\u2019s office in connection with a fentanyl death.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s death was discovered after a 911 call on Feb. 12 reported that a 2-year-old had stopped breathing in a home in the city\u2019s Mission Dolores neighborhood. When emergency workers arrived, they found evidence that the girl had been dead for several hours, the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Court documents cited by the district attorney reported that police found a white powder and drug paraphernalia in the home, and the child\u2019s mother \u2014 Michelle Price, 38 \u2014 seemed to be under the influence of a drug. Steve Ramirez, 43, identified as Price\u2019s boyfriend, was stopped by officers as he allegedly attempted to flee on a bicycle.<\/p>\n
The child\u2019s cause of death was determined to be fentanyl toxicity, and the medical examiner also found the opioid reversal medicine Narcan (naloxone) in the bloodstream, the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Fentanyl and methamphetamine were allegedly present in the blood of both adults.<\/p>\n
Price and Ramirez were charged with second-degree murder, willful harm or injury resulting in a child\u2019s death, felony child endangerment and possession of fentanyl and drug paraphernalia. Ramirez is also charged with resisting, obstructing and delaying a peace officer.<\/p>\n
Both adults were released from custody in February over the prosecution\u2019s objection. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Thursday, April 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two months after a San Francisco toddler\u2019s fatal fentanyl overdose, the child\u2019s parents have been charged with murder.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,861,7,8,114998,138,2781,13260,181,100,395,36365,101,396,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-271138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-bay-area-crime","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-child-fentanyl-deaths","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-drugs","15":"tag-fentanyl","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-peninsula","19":"tag-peninsula-crime","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-county","22":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","23":"tag-san-francisco-news","24":"tag-sf","25":"tag-sf-headlines","26":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}